Boston Invite

This past weekend Connie, Lex and I played with missCONNduct, the Connecticut Women's team, at Boston Invite. The first day started out rough - waking up at 4:45am to get there by 8am and then having to sit out the entire first game due to some weird subbing rotation because we had 20+ women. But when we finally got to play, the wait was worth it. We played some decent teams this weekend - a team from D.C. (perhaps the breakoff of Pi, the team Flip is on), 3 teams from Canada that all spoke French, a team from Minnesota called Pop(on which a former Ramona-ling from '99 played. It was really neat meeting her and chatting about the Ramona of former years), and the new Boston team called Hatch (playing them was like being a regionals all over again - there were a couple girls from Tufts, a few from BC, some more from Northeastern, etc etc. One of the girls from Tufts recognized me and asked if I had graduated from Yale yet ). Our final record for the weekend was 3-4.

A highlight of the weekend was when Connie threw a flick huck to win our second to last game on universe point. A flick huck!!!!! Connie!!!!!

Lex had a some great cutting and defending as well as driving. We were stopped on our way out of the parking lot towards home by our teammates because we had left the trunk open. Opps. And Connie and I were made fun of again for this last night at summer league.

I had a successful lay out for a run away dump throw :) and a few assits. Playing club is rough. The general feeling of the car on the way home was that we had never been this tired after a college tournament. But it was still great!

Overall, it was a really fun weekend. On top of all this ultimate playing, we also got to see a bunch of SuperMona - past and present - members. Sekol, Jasper and Friar - who from now on are the official favorite Superfly members - came to watch missCONNduct play for a few points. Raffi was also there and in is a close second with a clutch "Go Connie, Go Peach" cheer in our hardest game of the weekend. And on the shit list is Gabe - who did would not even wave to us from across the field. BOOO! However, it was really great to see everyone. Sekol, John Acheson, and Cantell are all playing for Colt 45 (Connecticut). Raffi and Gabe are playing for Philly Love (obvi). Friar and Jasper are play for Forge (Pittsburgh).

Aki was also there!!!!! It was really fun watching her mark up against Steffi (the '10ers freshman year captain) in her first game [Bashing Pinates v Mischeif]. Mona on Mona folks! It was actually amazing to see Steffi there. I haven't seen her since my freshman year, and she offered some words of encouragement for the coming season and captaining. Both of my freshman captains were there :) [Iris is on missCONNduct]

Other Mona players who I did not see/chat with much, but were there included Liz(Godiva), Tucker(Bent), Dorko(Bent), and the woman on Pop from '99. So, a great showing from Yale!

On Saturday night, I got to sleep over at Connie's sister's house, which is huge! We were so exhausted that we were barely able to shower and feed ourselves before passing out, but we did fit in a nice Cambridge stroll and some fro-yo (yum yum yum). And I got to sleep with Jenny :)

Miss you all! I can't wait to play in the fall with my dearest, darling Mona.

Love, Peachums

Attn. New Social Chairs

I know we haven't announced social chairs yet, but I KNOW what we're doing after SB 10. http://www.themovieinsider.com/m4382/ramona/

Hooray!

In other news, DC is great! It's hot, but great!

I've been playing as much ultimate as possible here. Unfortunately, that's not a lot because I have a 40hr work week and evening classes from 7-9:30 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Matty Barr has been a great ultimate buddy! In summer league, I discovered that all I have to do to get the disc when he picks up is run deep! Hooray! We're playing corporate and weekend league together. It's really unfortunate that my classes have stopped me from playing advanced league. Oh well.

I'm also playing for this women's team called Pi. The captain is ridiculous. Think about someone who works out as much as Liz, but looks way scarier (and incredibly INCREDIBLY muscular). She has us do really intense workouts. Man oh man. Unfortunately, I can only go to practice 2x/wk because I miss those darned weekday practices.

Oh, and I found a mixed team to play with when I get back to Minnesota. They're not that good (read: they're pretty terrible), but I would rather play with a bad team than no team at all. I'm also on the sub list for summer league there. Charks is playing rec league, and I think she's subbing for advanced. I don't believe she's written about it yet.

Speaking of Charks, I had this great email exchange around my first week in DC. It goes something like this:

MN Summer League Captain to Flip: I got your email from the waiting list. I need a sub for my team. Would be be available and interested in playing?
Flip to Summer League Captain (CC Charks): I would love to play for you, but I'm in DC. However, I have CC'd a girl on my college team who can probably do it. Her name is Charks.
Summer League Captain to Flip (CC Charks): Thanks for getting back to me, Flip. Charks, are you up for playing tomorrow?
Flip to Charks: hahahahahahahahahahahahah
Charks to Flip: i hate you.

Needless to say, I'm having fun messing with Ramona while I hang out in DC.

I gotta get back to work. This took a lot less time than I was expecting. More blog things to follow!